In Colorado, unless a person was an expert marksman with perfect vision in less than perfect conditions, nerves of steel and lightning fast reflexes (which other than self-proclaimed super-soldiers like you, are a fairly rare breed), then drawing a weapon and standing up in that theater would have gotten him killed lickety-split. So much for self defense.

Three of the victims were men who shoved their girlfriends down and got on top of them to shield them from the bullets, and died doing so. Would they have had enough time to try to shoot back had they been armed?

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Originally Posted by Grisha

We hear about similar shootings in US every year. They do not happen in most other developed countries. Those countries with gun controls.

One year ago last Saturday, a political summer camp for teens was shot all to hell in Norway, not to menion a few bombs going off. 18 dead, wasn't it?

On the same note, These types of shootings don't happen in the US every year either. Yes, there are murders that involve guns. But not on this scale. We had 8 years between Columbine and VA Tech. I don't recall anything major in between these off the top of my head.

The US is a pretty big country. I expect there to be more nutjobs out of the US, because there are 300 million Americans rolling around. I just worked backwards on that list, and had 6 shootings in the US, compared to 8 "Abroad" until I reached a population base that was actually higher than the US (once I included Japan, with 120 million people)